Sheet-conveying apparatus.



W. B. WAIT.

SHEET GONVEYING APPARATUS.

APPLIOATION FILED JUNE 20.1911.

1,044,713, Patented NOV. 19, 1912.

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1 W. B. WAIT. SHEET CONVEYING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 20,1911.

1,044,71 3', Patented Nov. 19, 1912.

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WILLIAM B. WAIT, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SHEET-CONVEYING APPARATUS.

Patented Nov. 1 9, 1912.

Application filed June 20, 1911. Serial No. 634,287.

1,044,713. Specification of Letters Patent.

To all 'w/wmit may concern: Fig. 2 is a detail plan view showing the Be it known that I, VILLIAM B. WAIT, a table removed. Fig. 3 is a detail side view citizen of the United States, residing at of a guide wheel and the spiral belt. New York, in the county of New York and In this drawing the letters a and b repre- 5 State of New York, have invented new and sent a pair of cylinders and c and (Z are a useful Improvements in Sheet-Conveying second pair of cylinders. These cylinders Apparatus, of which the following is a speciare operated in the proper direction by gears fication. connected to the driving mechanism 6. The

This invention relates to a sheet conveyer first named pair of cylinders'is adapted to 5 10 designed for an embossing press adapted for emboss one side of the sheet while the second punctographing characters on paper for pair embosses the reverse side of said sheet. reading by the blind and described in Pat- The upper embossing cylinder has a series ent No. 900,622 granted to me October 6th of wire belts f rotated by the cylinder and 1909 connected to idler wheels 9, these belts pre- 15 The present invention consists in equip vent the forward edge of the sheet from ping a press of this kind with a conveyer riding up on the embossing cylinder. whereby the sheet after the impressions have Between the two pairs of cylinders are been embossed on one of its sides by one pair located a series of wheels h and 2' over which of cylinders is carried by means of a series travel a series of spiral wire belts 9'. F in- 2O of'endless traveling spring belts to a second gets in are mounted on the shaft which carpair of cylinders, where the sheet is emries the wheels h and these fingers are of bossed on the reverse side. The belts are suitable construction to brush the head of constructed of a non-oxidizing wire such as the sheet on to the conveyer. The brushes phosphor bronze and formed into endless are rotated by means of a belt m- (see Fig. 25 spiral springs. These belts are guided over 2) connected to the shaft which carries the wheels located between the two pairs of cylwheels 2'. The belt is in turn rotated by inders the wheels being actuated in the gear connection to the driving mechanism. proper direction by suitable driving mecha- Below'the wheels h and z are situated a nism. The coiled springs form a flexible series of wheels 0 and p each wheel forms 30 traveling table between the two pair of cyla guide for a spiral wire belt 9. These belts inders, the springs being adapted to autoare actuated in the proper direction by gear matically keep their tension. Springs of connection to the driving mechanism. It this kind are self adjusting to changes of will be seen that the sheet when fed from the temperature or atmospheric conditions and table passes between the upper embossing 35 are impervious to moisture. The ordinary and lower impression cylinders where it is tape or leather being pervious to water embossed on one side, the head of the sheet would be apt to contract or expand and conis then guided by means of the rotating sequently would have to be taken up by stripper between the two spiral belts and adjusting the guide wheels or rollers. By conveyed to the second pair of cylinders. 40 means of the spiral belts no adjustment of Each guide wheel is provided with a conthe guide wheels is necessary it being obcaved groove formed in the periphery of the vious that a coil spring belt will automatiwheel for guiding or keeping the coil cally tension itself and remain taut bet-ween springs in alinement. The belts j and I the rollers. The invention also provides travel in an inclined plane so that the paper 45 means to guide the sheet to the conveyers. will be conveyed below the axial line of the Furthermore the machine has a series of lower cylinder and thus led around the strippers in contact with the upper embosslower portion of the cylinder with the ing cylinder designed to rotate in reverse reverse side up. direction and brush the head of the sheet on I claim: 50 to the conveyer. In a sheet conveying apparatus, the com- The novel features of the invention are bination with a series of cylinders posimore fully described in the following speci' tioned vertically in pairs, devices cooperatfication and claim and illustrated in the ing with an upper cylinder for preventing accompanying drawings in which: the forward edge of the sheet from being 55 Figure 1 represents a sectional side eleva carried up on the cylinder, of two series of tion of a press embodying this invention. endless coiled spring belts arranged on an In testimony whereof I have hereunto set inclined plane between the cylinders for conmy hand in the presence of two subscribing 1U \eying the sheet from a position in line with the meeting faces of the first pair of Witnesses. 7 cylinders to a position below the meeting faces of the succeeding pair of cylinders, WAIT driving mechanism for rotating the cylin- Witnesses:

\VILLIAM MILLER,

ders in opposite directions and both series of CHRIS. H. OLMSTAEDT.

belts in the same direction. 1

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